Talent isn’t the problem.
Most serious young players are already working hard. What they are missing is direction — someone who has walked the pathway telling them what to do next, and being honest about where they actually stand. That is what we do.
Albert Aramayo
Professional footballer · Bolivia U-20 international · degree in business administration
Nico Landa
Professional footballer · GV San José · certified sports coach (Argentina) · degree in business administration
Hard work with no plan is just tiredness.
A club coach has twenty players and one season to worry about. Nobody is looking at your player across eighteen months and asking what they specifically need next — or noticing that they are playing for three teams, growing three centimetres a quarter, and heading straight for an injury.
Between sessions
The part nobody sees
Nobody is tracking the load
Three teams, a tournament, then tryouts with no break. Somebody has to be counting, and it should not be a fourteen-year-old.
Nobody owns the honest conversation
A club coach is paid to win Saturday, not to tell you which level is realistic in three years. Somebody has to own that conversation, and usually nobody does.
Nobody is asking how they are coping
The mental side decides more careers than talent does, and almost nobody coaches it. A player who stops believing quietly disappears.
Five things we actually develop
Every month, every player. Not a drill library — a system where each part knows what the others are doing.
Technical
The ball, both feet, under pressure.
Position-specific work built on what the film and the benchmarks say he actually needs — not a generic drill library.
Physical
Built for a growing body.
Age-appropriate strength, speed and endurance, scaled to his growth stage and his total load across every team he plays for.
Mindset
The part that decides careers.
Confidence after a bad game. Pressure at a tryout. A coach who does not pick him. Led by Nico, because the mental side is what separated the players who made it from the ones who did not.
Nutrition
Fuel for who he is now.
Energy scaled to age, body mass, growth stage and training load. Never adult macros on a fourteen-year-old.
Career
Knowing what happens next.
Film, target schools, coach outreach, the recruiting calendar. The rules are knowable — most families are just never told them.
What you actually receive
Not a portal tour and a promise. These are the documents that land in your account every month, and the screens your family logs into.
Today
CompeteReadiness is where we want it
Slept 8h, soreness 2/10. Nothing in the last week says back off.
Open your body before the ball arrives. If you can see both goals, you have done it.
These are the real screens, built from the same code the platform runs on — so this cannot go out of date. The player and the numbers are invented. Switch programme above to see exactly what changes.
The training plan
Four weeks, session by session. Every session states its intent and one cue to hold on to, because a plan a player does not understand is a plan they stop following.
Open full sizeDownload the PDFThe gym plan
Age-appropriate loading, adjusted for growth stage and injury history. During a growth spurt the barbell work comes out — that is a rule in the system, not a judgement call.
Open full sizeDownload the PDFThe nutrition plan
Built around what your player actually eats and when they actually train. Written by Noelia, not generated from a template.
Open full sizeDownload the PDFThe film analysis
Timestamped decisions, not a highlight edit. What was seen, what the options were, and what to do the next time that picture appears.
Open full sizeDownload the PDFThe player profile
The one-page CV a college coach actually reads: position, numbers, film link, academics and contact. Kept current, not written the week of a deadline.
Open full sizeDownload the PDFThe recruiting roadmap
Month by month to the point of decision — which schools, in what order, by when, and what has to be true before each step. Realistic, with the reach and the safety named as such.
Open full sizeDownload the PDFThe coach outreach templates
What we actually send, and what your player sends under their own name. A coach can tell the difference between a real email and a mail-merge, which is the whole point.
Open full sizeDownload the PDFComplete worked examples, built to the standard we deliver. Hover one to look into it, or open it full size.
These are examples we built, for a player who does not exist. They are the real format, the real depth and the real standard — what they are not is somebody’s actual record. We do not show another family’s documents, even anonymised: if we would not do it with yours, we will not do it with theirs.
What families say
The people who have actually done this, in their own words.
I was technically good but I fell apart mentally after a mistake. At FootballPath they did not just give me the plan for the pitch — they taught me the three-second reset Albert uses. Now in first division matches I do not hide. I ask for the ball again.
My son was a starter, then he was benched and he collapsed mentally — he hid during matches. At FootballPath it was not only the pitch: they taught him how to handle a mistake and how to scan before receiving the ball. Within weeks he was asking for the ball again, his duel success went from 42% to 70%, and he was enjoying it again. A YouTube video does not give you that.Duels won 42% → 70%
Nobody had ever explained to us what to eat before a 2pm match. With the Strength & Mobility day and the FootballPath nutrition guide, my son stopped cramping at minute 70 and put on muscle in weeks.
Before, I trained without knowing whether I was improving. In the assessment they showed me with numbers that I was losing 7 out of 10 balls because I was not scanning, and that my pass completion was 61%. Now I have a plan every day that fits around my club training and my strength day, and I can see my match metrics. It is not training more — it is training with a reason.
Talk to a person
No chatbot, no ticket number. Albert or Nico answers, usually the same day.
Book the free assessment
Thirty minutes on video. Nothing is charged and nothing is owed — you keep the written assessment either way.
Book a timeEmail us
A question about the programmes, the pricing, or whether this is right for your player at all.
hello@footballpathhq.comMembers get a guaranteed window written into their programme. Everyone else: usually the same day, always within two working days.
Start with the free assessment
Thirty minutes on video. We look at where your player is, what they are aiming at, and whether those two things line up. You leave with a written assessment either way — there is no obligation and no pressure, and if we are not the right fit we will say so.